[First Edition] Mercer & Crocker's General

The vanishingly scarce first edition of this directory for Shropshire, with two folding maps of the region. The first and only edition. Subrscriber's copy, priced at 12/6. A non subscriber's edition was also published, priced at 15/-. Vanishingly scarce. No physical copies held in institutions. With two folding maps to the front of the volume, one showing the county of Shropshire and the other Herefordshire. Collated complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Rebacked with endpapers renewed. A comprehensive work, containing lists of nobility, clergy, gentry, merchants and many more, giving a detailed understanding of the area from a range of different people and social classes. In the publisher's original red cloth binding. Rebacked, with endpapers renewed. Marks to the boards and bumping to the extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with margina age toning and the odd spot, heavier to the first and last few pages. Closed tear to Shropshire map and chip to extremity of Hereford map. Very Good

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